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  • Title: Modulation of granulomatous hypersensitivity against Schistosoma mansoni eggs in mice vaccinated with culture-derived macrophages loaded with PIII.
    Author: Gustavson S, Zouain CS, Alves JB, Leite MF, Goes AM.
    Journal: Parasitol Int; 2002 Sep; 51(3):259-69. PubMed ID: 12243780.
    Abstract:
    Granuloma modulation induced by antigen is an attractive model for vaccination studies of experimental schistosomiasis to test the effect of anti-pathology vaccine. We describe here an immunization procedure with culture derived macrophages-pulsed PIII, a known anionic antigen purified from S. mansoni adult worm, involved in the inhibition of granulomatous response to eggs. For our studies, peritoneal or spleen macrophages cultured over 15 days were loaded with PIII. Both macrophage sub-populations were capable to efficiently take up and subsequently present PIII to lymphocytes as evidenced by immunofluorescence assay. The vaccination of mice with intravenous injection of PIII-loaded macrophages potently induced antigen-specific immune response to S. mansoni antigens as determined by cell proliferation assay. This immunization procedure of mice caused significant decrease in hepatic granuloma formation and in vitro granuloma reaction to S. mansoni antigens coupled to polyacrylamide beads (PB-SEA, PB-SWAP or PB-PIII). Assessment of in vitro granuloma supernatant of spleen cells from PIII-loaded macrophages vaccinated mice revealed significant amounts of Th1-cytokines IFN-gamma and IL-2 compared to control cells. Collectively, our results indicate that culture derived-macrophages provided a valuable research tool to investigate aspects of immune response that promote modulation of granulomatous hypersensitivity to S. mansoni eggs in mice.
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